In keeping with the (fantasy) vigorous executive that we have not got, suppose the following:

At the SOTU, flanked on one side by Gracie Slick ("Tear down the walls") and Michael Vick on the other ("Everyone can use a fresh start") Prez galvanizes his presidency and the country,.

I am declaring a state of infrastructure emergency.  I will not wait for one more innocent American to die in a bridge collapse, a pipeline explosion, a preventable flood.  Every day the toll of bodies climbs.  Therefor, I am directing FEMA to deputize the highway and public works departments of all fifty states, nationalizing the budgets of those departments and establishing an infrastructure bank to fund the immediate acceleration of any repairs that are pending.  (Bay Bridge, this means you...)

I am declaring a states' fiscal emergency--not one more bankruptcy will be threatened because state and local governments are being crushed by the weight of an insane drug prohibition policy and its attendant prison cost burden.  Accordingly, I am pardoning all incarcerated drug offenders of whatever stripe.

Thus will I counter the family emergency seizing our inner cities.  Not one more child will lose a parent to this monstrous prohibition project that only makes richer the Cartelistas and the Taliban--they will be referred to the hiring halls that FEMA is to set up in every urban metropolitan center, where they will be employed in the emergency infrastructure projects.  

I will do this every morning for the next six years of my terms, so you po-po out there better find some real crime to fight...don't be bringing in any dope slingers so you can run up your paperwork overtime.

Just to really chap the crazies' grits, I am asking ACORN to establish registration tables outside the prisons so that the newly enfranchized ex offenders may conveniently join the Democratic juggernaut.

How do you like me now?